I'm down here in Australia, where the government is a bit stalled for the past two weeks at the moment, known formally as being managed by the [ Caretaker government ]. Apparently, there is a gap between the outgoing administration and the incoming...

As we approach SVC's 6th birthday its interesting to see the rest of the industry starting to catch up and realise not only that a modular commodity storage controller is the way forward, but that also clustering of said modular controllers has many benefits....

The "modular monolith" has arrived. Oh how the EMC spin doctors must have jumped for joy when they realised the next version of the almost 20 year old Symmetrix family, the DMX-5 could also mean DMX-V in roman numerals. Better still lets try and jazz it up...

It seems a common thread in technology blogs to post some predictions for the coming year. However, as I'm not an analyst and don't profess to understand the entire storage industry, I thought I'd keep to a brief history of 2008 as I saw it - obviously with an...

I thought after the 4.3.0 release I'd have a bit more spare time to post more often, however I'm working on a couple of interesting projects that have really taken off over the last few months and I'm once again flat out, not to mention being asked to start...

Over at Burke HQ , I see that he's a little put out by a few questioning articles after EMCs 1Q broadcasts. In his latest post titled "Lions and Tigers and Bears" I can only but say "oh my!" Its unlike BarryB to tee himself up for such an obvious retort and to...

So before Mr Burke, Chuck or the zilla get in there with the excuses let me have a guess at what's coming : They deliberately mis-configured it Its not a true comparison Its not a real life workload Its all about the number of drives ad infinitum... I...

I'm in the middle of another take on the - Why Virtualize? story - looking at it from a subtly different angle - more of that later this week hopefully. But I have to quickly delve a little bit deeper into the concept of effective Tiering. Flash based disks...